{"id":141491,"date":"2025-09-14T01:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141491\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:34:12","slug":"john-daly-records-the-highest-score-in-pga-tour-champions-history-with-a-crazy-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141491\/","title":{"rendered":"John Daly records the highest score in PGA Tour Champions history with a crazy 19(!!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[PHOTO: Steven Garcia]<\/p>\n<p>John Daly the blackjack player would usually be happy with a 19. John Daly the golfer? Not so much.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time major champion racked up the staggering score during the first round of the Sanford International. Daly\u2019s 19 on the par-5 12th hole at Minnehaha Country Club in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a PGA Tour Champions record.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/john-daly-golf-photos-through-the-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The best photos of John Daly being John Daly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted as a 17, officials adjusted the score to a 19 after Daly signed his scorecard. He hit seven golf balls into penalty areas on the hole. The PGA Tour Champions doesn\u2019t have ShotLink, but here\u2019s one of the craziest play-by-play recaps you\u2019ll ever see:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2021\/250912-daly-play-by-play.png.rend.hgtvcom.966.773.suffix\/1757725251790.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2021\/250912-daly-play-by-play.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Daly continued to play afterwards, making a birdie and a bogey over the final six holes. He finished with an 18-over-par 88, which doesn\u2019t seem nearly as bad when you factor in he was 14-over on one hole. The 59-year-old is in last place by nine shots after one round.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2021\/250912-daly-scorecard.png.rend.hgtvcom.966.483.suffix\/1757725251572.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2021\/250912-daly-scorecard.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Daly broke an unfortunate record of his own as well. His highest score on a hole in competition previously was an 18 on the par-5 sixth hole at Bay Hill during the 1998 Arnold Palmer Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/watch-john-daly-crush-golf-ball-over-street-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Daly crushes golf ball over street to ring in New Year, leaves excited onlooker awkwardly hanging on high-five<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[PHOTO: Steven Garcia] John Daly the blackjack player would usually be happy with a 19. John Daly the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-141491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}